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30 Days to a Better Man Day 2: Shine Your Shoes

Stemming from the logic that women notice shoes, the Day 2 task from Art of Manliness is to shine ma shoes!
Get out every pair of dress shoes that you own and get them all into ship shape condition. You never know when you’re going to need to don a pair, and the last thing you want to do is be ready to run at the door to an important meeting and realize that your shoes are in no condition to meet the public.
Uh… since I don’t have “a few cans of Kiwi shoe polish” or dress shoes, I’ll opt to put a pair of my chucks into the washing machine.

I’m sure that my bright white sneakers will, of course, contribute to my becoming a “better man”… perhaps not as much as the feel of driving around in my midlife crisis car in stiff n’ shiny high-end shoes - but, ya know. Close?

Now here is a real stanly manly man:
Look at them shiny shoes and that permeating aura of I’m-richer-than-you! Clearly he successfully completed the Art of Manliness’s 30 Day Guide to a Better Man! I can’t wait!

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